Training Methodology to Increase Strength Parameter Based on Improved Neuromuscular Control Case Study

Abstract

Abstract The performance of the gymnasts on the rings has a specific character, determined by the alternation of elements in dynamic regime with elements in isometric regime and the endulum movement of the cables to which the two circles are attached (support points). The main parameters that define the specificity of the effort in performing the exercises on the rings are: muscular, ligament and tendon strength, the velocity at which the maximum muscular contraction is produced, muscular and joint resistance, intersegmental coordination, intermuscular coordination in the muscle chains involved and the ability of static and dynamic balance. The purpose of this study was to streamline the existing workout methodologies aimed at developing muscle strength in a short time and with low energy expenditure. To this end we proposed and tested in practice a workout programme with visual feedback in real time, whose main stimulus was aimed at consolidating the neuromotor abilities. The effects produced in the energy mobilization, found at the initial, final and post-experiment test, were significant in terms of immediate increase in the strength parameter and its stabilization in time. Although the research was conducted as a case study, this progress leads us to point out the existence of “reserves” important improvement of the energy component in the process control and monitoring of the neuromuscular contraction.